In the end, it is not the rage of our critics that we have to concern ourselves with. It is the silence of our friends that allow this anti-intellectualism to destroy people who have fought round the clock to bring these truths to life.
The challenging lesson from our history is that a deep well of strength and resilience are required for the long struggle to make equity and equality under the law a reality in the United States.
With this kind of leadership, it is no wonder the Democrats lost House seats in the highest turn out election of all time.
The ‘freedoms’ America was built on are the freedom to exploit water, land, humans, and the earth itself for the accumulation of inordinate wealth.
Any hope of salvaging society must come through socialism, not through the imperial war machine, no matter how “woke” it may be.
Militant unionism and working-class solidarity may be our only hope. We must break the capitalist machine in order to survive.
As the failures of the Squad prove, sending individuals to the heart of the machine will not change the machine, it will change the individuals. The parties and their machinations are too powerful.
The two dominant factions of our politics, conservatives and liberals, often wage wars of rhetoric and culture against one another but actually work together.
The capitalist dumping of externalities is oppressing and killing the best of humanity.